What’s Next for Cuba, Now That Its Main Oil Supplier Is Gone?

The Soviet Union was Cuba’s benefactor for decades. Venezuela took up the slack, and Mexico has supplied “humanitarian aid.” ...
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Russia fighting Ukraine longer than USSR fought Nazi Germany, Zelensky highlights in address

The full-scale war in Ukraine entered its 1,418th day on Jan. 11, matching the length of Nazi Germany's fight against the ...

How a KGB archivist defected with a treasure trove of Soviet secrets — and even his family had no clue

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution.
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine outlasts the Soviet fight with the Nazis – here’s what history tells us about Kyiv’s prospects

Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine passed a significant milestone on January 13. It has now outlasted the 1,418 days it took Vladimir Putin’s notorious predecessor, the Soviet ...
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Putin is trying to track down overseas properties that the Soviet Union owned and stake claims on them

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'City Of The Sun': How A Christian Metropolis Was Planned In Soviet Siberia

At a meeting in Soviet Russia's Krasnoyarsk territory in 1930, residents of Solona Village listened to state functionaries espousing what they claimed were the advantages of collective farms. No ...